There is an interesting blog post by Jeff Thurston about Russia making more of its technically outstanding geospatial data openly available. Jeff quotes Prime Minister Putin as saying “maps must be free and generally accessible […]
DLT Solutions organized a Geospatial Tech Day June 8 in Washington, DC. Mike Evanoff of Google Earth Enterprise gave the leadoff presentation. Jim Flyzik moderated a panel on geospatial trends that included Mike Evanoff, myself, […]
In May 2009 the City of Vancouver passed a motion endorsing open data, open standards, and leveling the playing field for open source software procurement. In November 2009 the City of Toronto launched Toronto.ca/open, the […]
There are some fascinating panel discussions on the agenda at next week’s annual Geospatial Infrastructure Solutions Conference in Phoenix. Peter Batty will be moderating a panel discussion at GITA 2010 in Phoenix next week that […]
Ordnance Survey OpenData is indeed open, in the many senses of the word. The web site is up, there’s a lot of free data and the license is nonrestrictive. You are free to: copy, distribute, […]
The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government has announced the results of the UK Government’s consultation on making some or all of the Ordnance Survey map data freely available, at no cost and […]
Next week is Where 2.0 in San Jose, California and Haris Kurtagic and I are going to be there to talk about GeoREST. Transparency in government promotes accountability and provides information to citizens about what […]
Jackie Ng has announced the release of FDO Toolbox v0.9.3.